The decision of the President of the Calabria Region, Roberto Occhiuto, spreads the cards and creates breakdown in the height of summer. The intention of the head of the regional executive is to go to the vote as soon as possible (even perhaps already at the end of September according to his wishes and perhaps no later than mid -October), but there are balances at national and local level to be managed even in conjunction with other electoral competitions in other regions. Beyond who the opponent will be, or the opponents of Occhiuto in the role of candidates for the presidency, the Toto names is already going crazy as regards the applications to the regional council. Among the outgoing, former councilors who want to try again and novelty of the ultim’o, the game is very open and the boxes of the puzzle to be composed are manifold.
All the outgoing regional councilors
Many of the outgoing regional councilors will try to replay their cards, but obviously it will be necessary to take into account a series of situations that will intertwine: parties and lists that compared to 2021 have changed political location within Palazzo Campanella, future scenarios linked to other electoral competitions (on all municipal elections in Reggio Calabria next year).
Roberto Occhiuto – Forza Italia (President of the Region)
Gianluca Gallo – Forza Italia
Pasqualina Straface – Forza Italia
Salvatore Cirillo – Forza Italia
Michele Comito – Forza Italia
Antonello Talerico – Forza Italia
Domenico Giannetta – Forza Italia
Giuseppe Mattiani – Salvini Calabria Lega
Katya Gentile – Salvini Calabria Lega
Filippo Mancuso – Lega Salvini Calabria (President of the Regional Council)
Pietro Raso – Salvini Calabria Lega
Giuseppe Gelardi – Salvini Calabria Lega
Luciana De Francesco – Brothers of Italy
Sabrina Mannarino – Brothers of Italy
Antonio Montuoro – Brothers of Italy
Giuseppe Neri – Fratelli d’Italia (Fdi group leader)
Pietro Santo Molinaro – Brothers of Italy
Pierluigi Caputo – Forza Azzurri
Giacomo Pietro Crinò – Forza Azzurri
Francesco De Nisi – (elected with the courage Italy list, today is part of Calenda action)
Giuseppe Graziano – (elected with the union of the center, today is part of Calenda action)
Opposition (10 councilors)
Domenico Bevacqua – Democratic Party (Pd Parent Company)
Francesco Antonio Iacucci – Democratic Party
Ernesto Francesco Alecci – Democratic Party
Raffaele Mammoliti – Democratic Party
Giovanni Muraca – Democratic Party
Amalia Bruni – Centrion -left coalition / Non -elected president candidate (it is part of the mixed group)
Davide Tavernise – 5 Star Movement (M5S group leader)
FRANCESCO Afflitto – (elected with the 5 Star Movement, today in the mixed group)
Ferdinando Laghi – De Magistris President
Antonio Maria Lo Schiavo – De Magistris President (today in the mixed group)
Who will try to (re) enter and create a mess
There are many names from Pollino to Strait ready to say their own in the next electoral competition. Among these here are the former councilors Vito Pitaro and Frank Mario Santacroce. The first was elected in 2020 on the list Jole Santelli president and will certainly try to have his say, also strong of the fact that he is now a big of the party of us moderate. The second, always in 2020, took over from Mimmo Tallini and in 2021 he was unable to reconfirm himself despite the 6982 preferences obtained in the courage Italy list (he was overcome by De Nisi in the Centro Circumscription and the other seat seat triggered in the South District in favor of Cirillo). Also in the Centro Circumscription, for example, Luigi Tassone, former regional councilor, mayor of Serra San Bruno and candidate of the Democratic Party in the last European elections of 2024, will be necessary to understand for example. In the northern area of Calabria, in the center -right the puzzle of candidates seems already fluid, while more dynamism will certainly be seen in the area of the center -left and reformists. There are many positions at stake: from the mayor of Cosenza Franz Caruso, up to the regional coordinator of Italy Viva, Filomena Greco.
The role of the regional councilors in office
Will the king of preferences and councilor for outgoing agriculture will try again? Gianluca Gallo in 2021 managed to conquer something like 21692 votes (far the most voted in Calabria). And then it will be necessary to understand what the two councilors of Fratelli d’Italia, Filippo Pietropaolo (vice -president of the junta) and Giovanni Calabrese will do: both in 2021 were missing the election, but were then appointed councilors: the former mayor of Locri after the election to the Parliament of Fausto Orsomarso. The positions of Caterina Capponi (Lega) and Rosario Varì (Forza Italia) are more complicated, but it is not said that they cannot take the field.
The role of the electoral system
In short, it will be a August of fire and the race for applications has already inevitably started. Without forgetting that the electoral system will play a decisive role. In 2021 – as brilliantly explained today on the columns of our newspaper Roberto De Luca, professor of Unical Political Sociology) – the high barrier thresholds (the percentage of votes necessary to obtain at least one seat), equal to 8% for coalitions or individual lists with a candidate for president and 4% for the individual lists albeit part of a coalition, have caused exclusions of representative and blatant Asymmetries between the percentage of voting and seats obtained from lists and coalitions.